Toward Compositional Verification of Interruptible OS Kernels and Device Drivers
Operating system kernel forms the lowest level of the system software stack. Correctness of the OS kernel is the basis for the correctness of the entire system. Recent efforts have demonstrated the feasibility of building formally verified general-purpose kernels, but it is unclear how to extend their work to verify the functional correctness of device drivers, due to the non-local effects of interrupts. In this paper, we present a novel compositional framework for building certified interrupible OS kernel with device drivers. We provide a general device model that can be instantiated with various hardware devices, and a realistic formal model of interrupts, which can be used to reason about interruptible code. We have realized this framework in the Coq proof assistant. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our new approach, we have successfully extended an existing verified non-interruptible kernel with our framework and turned it into an interruptible kernel with verified device drivers. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first verified interruptible operating system with device drivers.
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15:30 - 17:00 | Verifying SystemsResearch Papers at Grand Ballroom Santa Ynez Chair(s): Santosh NagarakatteRutgers University | ||
15:30 30mTalk | Rehearsal: A Configuration Verification Tool for Puppet Research Papers Rian ShambaughUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst, Aaron WeissUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst, Arjun GuhaUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst Pre-print Media Attached | ||
16:00 30mTalk | Toward Compositional Verification of Interruptible OS Kernels and Device Drivers Research Papers Hao ChenYale University, Xiongnan (Newman) WuYale University, Zhong ShaoYale University, Joshua LockermanYale University, Ronghui GuYale University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
16:30 30mTalk | Verified Peephole Optimizations for CompCert Research Papers Eric MullenUniversity of Washington, Daryl ZunigaUniversity of Washington, Zachary TatlockUniversity of Washington, Seattle, Dan GrossmanUniversity of Washington, USA Pre-print Media Attached |